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1st They are simple in construction and cas-
lily managed. using only good common fiat
wick.
End They produce whittier light then ever
before produced from kerosene oil.
3rd They produce twice the amount of light
70 given amount OF oil consumed, compared
with other burners
4th They are perfectly sweet when burning.
throwing on no unhealthy odor.
9Th They are 80 constructed that they re-
cefve an inside draft Of air between the flames
through the burner itself. consequently we
have an inside as well rs an outside drafts
new feature IN fiat wick burners.
9th This enables as to preserve the inside
draft to our burners when used on all ordinary
lamps.
7fh These burners consume twice the
amount Of air 70 the same amount OF oil con-
sumed In comparison No other burners. Oil
alone produces heat and smoke. The con-
sumption Of the oxygen IS what makes the
light.
Call and see them 1t
Z. S. CLAYTON & CO.. Agents.
1-19tfl Market Space. Annapolis. I'D.
Evening capital., 1887-02-21

''s Ieur Watches, Clocks, and Jewelry
Npalrs TO J. SMITH, 40 Maryland
saae Satisfaction guaranteed or mon
Alandcd.
Evening capital., 1887-02-21

1 Saith, 46 Maryland Avenue, is the
space to buy Watches, Clocks, Je,oelry.
&stvaFe, &c.
Evening capital., 1887-02-21

YOlina Cordial is the most strengthen
ingand invig0rating tonic now offered for
sale for bilious and malaria lscomplaints
Win prevent and cure chills, and fcvers
.lypepsia. &c. For sale by all druggists,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-09
DERCOMING MAN.

want some informashun shust so quickly
vot can,
How I shall pring mine Yawcob CUP to been
der coming man,
For efery day Id seem to me der brosbect look
der harder
To make dot coming man IMPROVE upon dot
going fader.
Twas Eeddher he vas more like me. a
Deutscher blain und rude
AS to been abofe hees peesnis und grown up
to be dude.
don'd oxshbect dot poy off mine Washing
ton to be,
IND schop mid hadchets all aroundt ubon
mine abble dree,
So he can let der coundtrey know he
schmardter vas as /,
Und got scheap advertising dot he don'd
could tell lie;
Mine Yawcob lets der drees alone undil der
fruit Obey bear
IND dhen dot Teller he looks oudt und gets
der lions share. -
Some say twas beddher dot you teach der
young ideas TO shoot;
Veil, dink dis aboudt idiot advice id vas
no good!
bod poy vonce dock hees broder oudt und
obey blay William Tell,
Budt Yawcob vas no shooter-he dom do id
pooty veil;
Dot arrow don'd go droo der core, budt id vent
pooty near
Shust near enough to miss id und 60 droo
heeS brodders ear.
He drayels NIT hees buysickle in efery kind
of vedder
IND, dough he vas Temperance boy, some
dimes he dakes header
/ dond know shust Oxactly Yot dot yas-'tis
worse as bier
Shust like he shtrike a cyclone und walk
righdt off on his ear.
ask Won time aboudt id, bud dot poy he only
grumble,
Und say beddher try id vonce, dhen maybe
Would ''tumble!'
Dot Yawcob says dot We vas boor, und he
wants to be richer,
Und dot der coming man must been Wrist
glass pase pail pitcher;
He says he must be striking oudt" und try
und make hid,''
Und dells me 1 vas ''off mine pase" When !
makes fun off id:
When L say he soon must paddle bees canoe
''oudt on der schwim''
| He say dot Won off Hanlan's shells vas good
enough for him.
Dot Shakesbeer say aboudt der son dots brof.
ligate und Wild:
''How sharper as serpent's thanks vas been
| der toothless shildl''
| q got dot leedle twisted; mean dot thank
| less youth
He cuts hees poor oldt fader more as a ser
pent's tooth)
Und dhen der broverb dells us dot de shild
he must obey,
Und dot eef you should shpare der rod you
| shpoil hum righdt away
Veil, Yawcob, he vas pooty goot-I guess
| don'd gomblain,
sometimes wish, mineself, dot I vos been
| poy again.
L lets him blay NIT pase- pail, und dake head
| ers While he can.
prings him CUP nit kindness. und risk del
| coming man.
Let neighbor Pfeiffer use der shtick, while
| Otto howls und dances;
| I'll shpoil der rod und shpare der shild.
| dink, und dake der STANCES
Charles Fol,en Adams in Harper's Magazine
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-09
EYES AND EYEGLASSES.
Vanity Puts Too Many Persons in
C~ootooIas I'M, - C:,ou1xx1 NJ

Vanity Puts Too Many Persons in
SpectacIes--The Cigarette Eye.
A New York Mail and Express re-
porter watched for five minutes the
human tide that swirls through Park
row opposite the postoffice, and counted
seventy-eight persons with eyeglasses
astride their noses. Then he went to
an OculiSt and said: 'Are diseases of
the eye on the increase?"
The oculist adjusted his own glasses,
looked critically at those of his ques-
toner. and said:
81 think not. When l say that. I don't
mean that our business is falling off.
On the contrary, it is increasing every
year, and will continue to do so as long
as people wear eye glasses because they
think it adds to their personal appear
ance. You have no idea how many
there are who do this, and only one who
sees cases every day, as | do, can form
any estimate of the number of glasses
that are disposed of in this way
"Young people study and read by dim
lamp OF gas light, and, of course, the
eye becomes somewhat weakened.
Then the parents rush off to get pair
of SpectacleS, and oftentimeS patrOnize
men who will sell them any kind of
glass, no matter how we'll it may suit the
case, just to get the money. This care
lessneSs is dangerous and sometimes
fatal TO the organs of sight, which are
entirely too sensitive to be trified with.
The greatest enemy to the eyes of young
men is the cigarette. Recently dis
ease has appeared among smokers
which is dangerous, and after careful
investigation the best authorities, who
for a long time were at loss to under
stand the peculiar malady, have traced
it to the small paper-covered tobacco
sticks. 1t is now known as the Cigarette
eye,' and can be cured only by long
treatment. Its symptoms are dimness
and film-like gathering over the eye,
which appears and disappears at inter
walls. If young men continue to smoke
cigarettes excessively, they may expect
to be afflicted by this troublesome dis
ease; and it is not relieved by spec
faplpS ~
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-09
HIRED TO DRINK CHAMPAGNE
Dudes Who Get Big Salaries for
Swillinp It

The wine agent has to visit ali the
watering places at this time of the year,
and, remaining Between three days and
week at each place, treating all who will
accept his invitation in the principal
bar rooms of each resort, says the New
York Sun. If he is first-class man he
draws a salary of from $1,000 to $40, 900,
and has all his expenses paid. He
makes no effort to sell bottle
of wine, but simply drinks it lay
iShly, treats to it like lord,
and keeps the crowd impressed with
aScribe to it, and the landlord with the
generosity of the firm he buys of. Such
an agent is followed in few days by a
salesman, who also treats, but only the
landlord or SalOonkeeper.
In the winter the statesmen of the high
est order visit not only the principal
cities. but also the most prosperous
gambling hellS and houses of i'll repute,
in each of which they loosen the
bonds of the imprisoned wine as kings
use to free jail birds. on
their coronation days. The visit of
a firSt-claSS wine agent is great event
wherever he goes. He is prince of
good fellows, chosen on that account
Ut cdu SiHS. KNOWS Tile newest ana
funniest stories, the latest gossip about
the turf, the stage, the palace bar
rooms, and the demi monde, and he
can drink as only the fishes are sup
posed to be able to do. He knows all
the public men who drink in public, all
the actors and ali the bar room wits and
heroes. He poses like Fortunatus-
always spending money till daylight,
and having just as much, apparently,
the next night.
The employment of New York club
man and dude as the public drinker or
advertiser (at some say $40 and some
say $40 day for New York agency
of French house has stirred Beaver
street, the center of the wine trade, as
it never was stirred before. At first the
report was not credited, but the aston
ishing raid of broken-down dndes on
that street for positions of the same
sort in rival houses has convinced the
agents there that this novelty in the
business is not popular delusiOn.
The head of one of the most famous
wine houses in this country says that he
has recently received applications from
scores of brOken-down men about town,
who say that they would like to be en-
ployed at high salaries to open cham
payne free of cost to the glory and
honor of any house that will employ
them.
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them fiat, smooth, and of uniform
thickness of about three. sixteenths
OF an inch. Next day they are pushed
into the jaws of CROCODILE" which
consists of pair of steel plates, in the
under one of which there are six rows
OF curved knives, each set so as to cut a
little deeper than the one that went be-
lore. These pillow out parallel grooves
nalf way through the slab, which man
then turns and lays on steel plate.
having ridges which just fit these
grooves.
This slides back under the six rows Of
teeth Of a second crocodile lying in
wait alongside, which cuts the grooves
on the other side and leaves the pencils
side by side. Lastly they are broken
and rolled off for an instant to point
them upon an emery belt. A man can
give this last touch to about 5000 in a
day. The average daily output is about
$4,000 and the mill gives employment to
some twenty-five hands. The old plan
was to saw out square pencils from the
slab one by one. These were boxed and
distributed among poor families, who
Whitfield them round by hand at. from
70 to 30 cents per 1000.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-09
A PRETTY BARBER GIRL.
She Shaved Andy johnson, and
His Wife Sues for Divorce.

His Wife Sues for Divorce.
A little German barber girl is the
cause of all the trouble i'll the Johnson
family, in Brooklyn, N. Y. A short
lineage all was love and peace and
harmony, and now there is discOrd. hate
and suit for divorce. Andrew John
son, the defendant, is an undertaken,
but the somberneSS of his business does
not prevent him from approaching a
pretty girl and her tender touch
when occasion gives him the OPP
portunity. And so it was but a
home and proceeded to his BARRIERS to
have his face made handsome through
the. efforts of his tonsOrial artist. Upon
arriving there he. found the barber out,
but in his place was the pretty daughter
Barbara. She, in her sweetest way, said
she would be delighted to have the
pleasure of shaving him, and he was not
ayerSe to the novel experience. So he
settled himself down in the comfortable
down, and the pretty barberess pro-
ceeded to rub on the lather in very
pleasant way, and after this she deli
cately manipulated the razor to
remove the stubble upon the I'M
dertaker'S face. She had just got
pleasantly under way, and was be-
quilting johnson with her sweet talk
when shadow loomed up in the door
way like a thunder-clOud across the
face of the sun. 1t was Mrs. Ann Eliza
johnson. The neighborS had told her
that her husband was being shaved by
the pretty girl, and she had come down
to give her opinion On the subject.
There was decided redness in her eye
as she dashed into the shop, picked up a
razor and started after her husband and
the fair maid. They dashed into rear
room to escape the fury of the wife, and
she kept them confined there for two
priSOnment diSagreeable the affidayits
fail to state.
AT the end of two hours the wife left
and the husband ventured to go home,
but the welcome he received was not
that which a sweet maid gives to her
lover. He was welcomed with perfect
shower of plates. knives and household
utensils. until he decided that his life
would be safer somewhere else. SO he
departed, and later, by back way,
crawled into the house, and, getting to
his room, locked the door and went to
bed. This proceeding, he says, he has
been compelled to keep up ever since
for fear of his life. Lawyer Mott, who
appeared in opposition to motion for
alimony and counsel fee this morning,
said johnson was good husband,
and the trouble was his wife was in
Sanely jealous because of the little bar
Der girl, between whom and his client
there was nothing more than shave
now and then. He further said he went
to see his wife about providing for her
support, and she treated him to about
the same tonge-ulashing as he presumed
she gave her husband. All his client
wanted was peace. He was willing to
have the case tried at once. He would
let the wife sell all their property, take
one-third and divorce and go her way
in peace at any time she wanted to.
There was no pleasure living with her,
and she ruined hts business.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-09
AMAZONs IN PARIS.
Duelling Among Women Coming
Into Vogue Again.


Duelling among women, says the
Paris correspondent of the Daily Tele-
graph, threatens to come into vogue in
J Paris, and the old practice of democrat
izing chignons, tearing off hats OR bon
NETS and bearing the imprint. of nails
iin faces when quarrels are to- he adj
busted will soon probably be discarded
formOre summary means of obtaining
satisfaction. The other day two we'll
idresSed women came face to face with
oeach other in the Rue Laurence
9Savart and bystanders were surprised
to hear them suddenly begin to objur-
gate one another in vociferOuS manner
worthy of the Nine. AngotS of the Cen
trail market. Public interest in the
spectacle was, however, more deeply
aroused when one of the scOlds pulled a
revolver from some mysterious part of
her bodice and levelled it her adversary
The adversary fumbled about for her
weapon of defence, but before she had
time to present it bullet whistled near
her ears, and she tainted away in man.
ner hardly worthy OF an Amazon. The
assailant, Nine. Celestine, was seized
and disarmed by the on-lookers, while
her unlucky rival was carried fainting,
but uHinjured,: TO an adjacent pharma-
ceuticai establishment
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-09
IN PAWN Al YEARS,
An Umbrella. on Which the Inter-
est Was Regularly Paid.

The longest ''Iend" of an umbrella OH
record is that chronicled by NJ Maxine
du Camp in his curious book on the
Paris Mont-de-Piete. That umbrella
was pawned, and annually renewed for
forty-seven years in succession. The
director of the state pawnbrOking es-
adjustment in Brussels seems to have
had many similarexperiences. For more
than 20 years he has had in his keep
ing the diamonds and other jewelry of a
once famous .prima donna, who has
somehow fallen into poverty. Every
year the interest is punctually paid; but
the trinkets have not once been taken
out of pawn. More than once large
sums have been lent by the Brussels
Mont-de-Piete on the regalia of impe-
cunious German princes. The estab-
liShment possesses choice assortment
of barrel organs, whence it may be pre-
sumed that organ-grinding is much less
lucrative in Belgium than in some other
unfortunate counties. Despite the de-
posit of crown diamonds and singers
jewels, the average of the sums adj
vanced seems to be very small, for last
year no more than s1,515, 900 was lent on
over 300,0 900 pledges.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-09
PEEPING TOMS.
Crowds Witnessing the Queen of
Spain Bathing.

The Queen Regent, of Spain, taking
her bath is now the daily sight on which
idlerS at San Sebastian feast their eyes.
HIS many spectators assemble to see her
descend into the waves, and plunge
therein, as if bull fight were going on.
The Spaniards are the NEST, equality
loving people in the world. and the
corporation of the town informed her
majesty that it would never do to have
"a part of the beach set apart for her use.
She wears lint shoes, stockings, panta-
lettes of the ZOuave kind, with deep
frills hiding the ankles and a short
.tunic. For several days she made one
rof her ladies. who is her age and height,
battle before the crowd. Chamberlains
and bathing-men were instructed to pay
her all the reverence due to a sovereign.
When she came out of the water the
crowd dispersed, and Donna Christina
washable to battle without feeling that
she was public show.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-09
BOTTLES WITH sYRINGEs.
An Irishman Adds, to the Fame of
His COuntry's Products.

Ireland is famous for its stout and its
whisky, and it also promies to become so
for its bottles. An Irishman, Francis
Hazlett, has invented and all Irish COM
pany has brought out mechanical ap-
paratus for blowing glass bottles which
diSpenSes with the old-faShloned
method of blowing glass by the
mouth. Hitherto it has b9en consid-
cred impossible to improve upon the hui
man lungs, and so the glass blowers of
the world have gone on putting them
selves away at fOrty-twO years of age,
which is the low average of life among
these handicraftsmen. The new inven-
ton, which was exhibited at work re-
Gently at Angel, Golden lane, London,
diSpenses entirely with the human
lungs and injects the air into the molten
glass by an air pump not unlike an Or
binary syringe in shape and action.
This is fastened to the ordinary blow
pipe, and makes little difference to the
workman in handling. Manifestly this
invention is of advantage to the work
man: as to the employer, it will enable
him to produce bottles at two times and
half greater speed.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-09
A ROYAL COOK


lost her temper, rushed out and boxed
his ears.
That cured him and he took to being
an eagle. He built a large nest in his
private apartments, and he sat in it day
in and day out Matching eggs, as he sup
posed. During this time he took occa-
siOnal flights in the garden, using his
arms as wings and never forgetting
that he was the king of birds as well as
of the Bavarians. When the eggs were
Matched and the young eagles had taken
flight Otto took to shooting peasants. He
had small arsenal placed at his dis
pOsal and he amused himself all day
long shooting down farmers and coun-
try folks. Of course the attendant took
care that the guns were only loaded
with blank cartridges and the targets
were provided on purpose. The king
fired as soon as he had sighted his man
and the man fell because he saw his pay
at the end of the farce.
That delusion lasted until one day the
king discovered that he was great DO
tatO-peeling machine. He seized a
knife, rushed into the kitchen and
started to peel potatoes. His energy
and application were so stupendous that
it took several men to keep him supplied
with potatoes. He peeled them well,
too, and soon had such stack in the
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-09

care little for Otto. When the news of
Ludwig'S tragic death in Lake Storm
berger was brought to the palace, Otto
clapped his hands and jumped about
the room, eXclaiming:
NOW am king! You'll have to call
me your majesty"
What little control he had over his
faculties disappeared at that time, and
he has since been given over to the
widest freaks and antics. One of the
first things he did was to fall violently
in love with fat servant girl. She was
plain. hearty, methodical woman, and
did not like the young kings attentions
at all. She was strongly opposed to
fooling. LOye-making was not in her
line. Her Indifference only added fuel
to the flame in OttO'S breast, and he fol-
lowed her everywhere, making violent
love to her. The girl eXpostulated with
him, and begged him not to make her
the subject of ridicule, but Otto fell on
his knees before the girl and swore she
was queen and fairy. The girl used
make rumpuS to brighten him off, but
the king became more ardent, and fell
on the floor and kissed her feet.
On one occasion he rObed himself like
Don QuiXote and, with helmet OH head,
breaStplate in front and spear in hand.
advanced at the head of the royal band
to serenade her. Several tunes were
played. but at the third the king, not
liking the performance of the man on
the second trombone, threw down his
long spear, snatched the instrument
from him and blew away on it himself.
He, not being familiar with the instru-
ment, was not an improvement on the
man, and the flow of the melody was
somewhat MARRIED Otto gave if IN after
a few blasts. He could not resist the
sight of the stout maiden.
He clapped the trombone across his
heart, folded his hands over it in token
of undying affection, smiled like a
basket of chips and capered up and
down the. lawn to the time of the music.
The girl became so enraged that she
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-09
HOW VERDI ESCAPED,
He Hired All the Hand Organs
and I'm iOYed Peace.

A German newspaper relates capital
story of the composer Verdi. Some
years ago Verdi was visited by friend
in small bathing place, where he was
found quartered in a little room, which,
he said. served at once as dining, dwell
ing and bed room. As the visitor ex-
pressed surprise, Verdi broke in, ''Oh,
l have two other large rooms, but 1 keep
the articles hired by me in them" With
this the composer rose from his seat,
opened a door and showed his aston
ished visitor ninety-fiye, barrel organs,
remarking: "When 1 came here all
tore,' and similar stuff. l have hired
them from the owners. I pay about
1,500 lire, and now can enjoy my sum-
mer rest without being diSturhcd.v
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-09

new Swiss watches designed for the use
of the blind. "The old raised-hgure
watches are clumsy and the blind peO-
pie were constantly bending or break
ing the watch hands by touching. them.
In this watch small peg is set in the
center of each figure. When the hour
hand is approaching certain hour the
peg for that hour drops when the quar-
ter before 1t is passed. The person feels
the peg is down and then counts back
to L.. He can thus tell the time within
few minutes, and by practice he can
most exactly. They have been in use
about six months, and there is steady
and growing demand for them.o
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-09
WHEN ASTERS BLOW.

When asters blow, and waves of gold
Across the fallow fields are rolled
Till the tall hedges hardly hold
Such sunny overflow,
o. VIVA. bewildering beauty bold,
When asters blow!
The skies like gracious dreams unfold,
And where the parching summer doled
Her pallid blooms, fling lavish gold
And princely purple wealth untold,
When asters blow.
-EYaleen Stein.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-09

the king is now engaged on his machine
making frilled gowns for all the old
women of Bavaria. He sits in his room
at the machine working away like a
Trojan, surrounded by heaps of rags,
odds and ends of cloth, and finished and
unfinished garments. wholly uncon-
SciouS of the world abroad.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-09
A SCHOOL GIRL's DEL1CAoY.
Where and How the Toothsome
Slate Pencil is Manufactured.

In the northwestern part of the town
of Castleton, Rutland county, VT,
is the only mandatory in the United
States of slate pencils. The stone as it
comes from the quarry is sawed into
blocks from four to seven inches wide
according to the length desired for the
pencils. These are split quite easily
with chisel into slabs little thicker
than the finished pencils-say five-six-
teenth of an inch.
These are passed through a planning
machine and over an emery belt to make
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-09
THE SIGNAL.

The moon is hid iii the nlists afar,
One sentinel hangs in space, the even star;
to my love will go.
Dost hear the windS 1t tells me sol
to my love must goi
With kisses sweet and arms OF snow
And winsome face.
-E, l., NJ. Bristol.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-09
Matches for the Blind.

s.This is one of the cutest things in
the watch line that has yet appeared"
aid JeweIer Charles M. Crossman, of
New York city, holding up one of the